New York City

Opponents claim New York City officials’ plans for three skyscrapers in a historic low-income area of Manhattan were rushed to approval without going through proper regulatory channels or consulting residents of the neighborhood.

James Dolan, the billionaire CEO of Madison Square Garden Co. and the fan-derided owner of the New York Knicks, will shell out more than $600,000 in civil penalties to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that he violated securities rules.

Five years after admitting that its predecessor defrauded New York City over its troubled Croton Water Treatment Plant, Siemens Electrical returned fire against the Big Apple in a $143 million lawsuit over the same project.

A policy that the New York City Board of Education instituted earlier this year forces teachers to effectively abandon their right to attorney-client privilege in order to obtain legal representation, their union claims in court.

New York City cannot litigate its way out of the climate change crisis, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dismissing a lawsuit against oil giants BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell.

A detailed lawsuit filed Thursday in New Jersey federal court claims the former headmaster of a prestigious Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a Brooklyn teenager who was living with him in the 1980s and helping around the house in exchange for free tuition.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday it will no longer prosecute people for possessing and smoking marijuana, a move that will sharply reduce the low-level criminal charges that overwhelmingly affect black and Hispanic people.

A giant sycamore tree shaded the churchyard of a 250-year-old chapel near Wall Street for a century before the Twin Towers fell. An artist’s bronze sculpture of the tree replaced it for roughly a decade, but the lawsuit the artwork spawned lasted only several months.

Trying to answer a question from the Second Circuit in a pregnancy-bias case, the Empire State’s highest court heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether a New York City anti-discrimination law allows for punitive damages.

Less than a day into deliberations, a New York jury on Thursday threw the book at a Chinese billionaire convicted of bribing two powerful ambassadors to advance his vision of United Nations conference center in Macau.

Promising action on New York City’s chronic subway delays and train derailments, the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled a more than $800 million emergency plan effective immediately – as soon as the dysfunctional political system sorts out funding.

A Chinese real estate mogul hoped to create a diplomatic hub that would have turned Macau into Asia’s answer to Geneva, but after a month-long trial, a U.S. prosecutor told a jury that the billionaire paved the road to his vision with corruption.

Steps away from New York City’s Holland Tunnel, an historic tree-lined street had been classified as narrow for more than a century, until — one developer complains — a secret lobbying campaign over prime real estate changed that.

The estate of street photographer Vivian Maier claims a Chicago art collector abused its copyright to acclaimed photographs taken by the “Northshore nanny,” opening another front in the fierce battle over who owns the right to print her work.